Jesus Culture Sacramento Message of the Week

Michael Brodeur, co-founder and CEO of Pastor’s Coach and of Destiny Finder, shares with our church family about the importance of tending to the garden of our heart. Life flows from our hearts, and because of that it is necessary to guard our hearts from anything that would pollute or dilute its strength. In order to do so, we must tend to the soil of our hearts and be aware of the seeds we are planting- what we see, read, watch, and how we are taking care of them. Our roots must be deeply rooted in the Word of God.

Pastor Banning Liebscher is joined by Michael Brodeur and Elizabeth Woning to discuss God’s original design for sexuality, why it is important for believers to understand His design, and why sexuality matters to God. Michael Brodeur is the co-founder and CEO of Pastor’s Coach and of Destiny Finder, and Elizabeth Woning is the co-founder of Equipped to Love, a ministry seeking to serve and equip those impacted by homosexuality, and CHANGED, a network of men and women who have walked away from LGBTQ identity.

Our Jesus Culture Sacramento community takes the morning to honor father’s by discussing what it means to be a father, the battles father’s must overcome, the sacrifice required, and how men carry a standard of love in their homes. Cody Williams hosts a panel of fathers from our community that includes Ben Serpell, Mike Horn, Mark Hemington, and Ethan Kastello.

Pastor Banning continues his message on faith for revival by teaching us the practicals of guarding out hearts. Our heart is our responsibility, so in order to guard it effectively, we must know God’s intention for our heart, and how He instructs us to protect them. When we learn to guard our hearts, we feed our faith, and speak and give hope liberally to others.

How do we stay in a place of faith when we are surrounded by evil and darkness is increasing? Pastor Banning addresses the question we’ve all been asking, by reminding us that our first priority is to guard our hearts. The enemy comes to weigh our hearts down, but the more time we spend building our hearts up in the Word of God, and protecting what comes in, the stronger our faith will be!

There is always a temptation to settle for less than God’s best when we are worn out and tired, but in the midst of these seasons, there is also an invitation from God to press into His promises over our lives, circumstances, and communities. Pastor Banning challenges us to becomes prisoners of promise by not settling for what is, but instead, crying out for more of God, and refusing to settle for anything less than what God has promised. Are there areas in your life where you’ve settled for less than God’s best?

Our revelation of God as a Father, and our understanding of Jesus as a friend, is the key to being a believer that prays bold prayers. Pastor Banning Liebscher encourages us to live a life that refuses to settle for anything less than what Jesus died to give us. We are called to live a life of peace, abundance, love, and power, not one that adjusts to brokenness, or settles for compromise.

Danny Silk, President and Co-Founder of Loving on Purpose, talks about the power of culture and how we must intentionally create it, and export it to the world. We want to be a community that honors one another despite differences, stirs up faith, and shares testimonies of how God is moving. The greatest thing we can give people is our culture of bringing Heaven to Earth and the hope we have in Jesus.

God wants to be invited into every area of our lives, and He will often use desperate circumstances and situations to move us to a place of prayer. Pastor Banning reminds us that we have a choice in difficult circumstances to either turn towards God, or turn away from Him. If the cry of our hearts is to see revival in our lives, communities, and nations, then we must be a praying people in all circumstances that are desperate for God to move and speak.

We are all called by God to be someone and to do something. Leadership is taking ownership for that call. Pastor Banning reminds us that we have a call to look and be like Jesus, and to partner with God in seeing His plans and purposes established in the earth. Christianity is living a life fully engaged with God!